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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1922
Page
4
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The piece titled GPPLING RHYMES by Walt Mason reflects on labor, day’s toil, and night’s respite, with playful rhymes about workaday figures and weary life. It presents a light lyrical meditation on weariness and the promise of sleep.
WY Scouts reorganize the Boy Scout facility with Legion backing and Robert Y. Conrad support. The building will host three troops split from one, meeting two nights weekly with a pool and gymnasium on the third floor, under council approval. Scout masters and assistants including John S. costmaster, Harry Kerns, Roy Cather, Irving Cather, Earl 3 Scoutmaster Rev. Clar pods, and Lawrence Hugh McKee will lead the six week preparation and demonstrations.
Real estate for sale includes a 6 room house with light and water at $1800, a 5 acre suburban property with frontage on a long street at $8000, and a 56 acre farm three miles from Winchester at $4500. A client offers 6 percent interest and 2 percent bonus on first class real estate securities for buyers with $5000.
Newlin and Company urges readers to protect and feed birds. The notice promotes enjoying birds and offers tips on sustaining overwinter wildlife and bird populations.
Latest patterns wall paper priced at 10 cents each with gilt and 12.1 to 2 cents apiece. Window shades offered at 49 cents. Promoter Thomas and Messer Company located at 1015 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
A check for $381.66 was signed by George N. Sanders, treasurer, representing gifts from several Baptist churches. Oliver J. Sands stated the funds aid relief for suffering and displaced children through the Foreign Mission Board.
Public sale of property from the Davi versus Brown chancery cause to be held February 15 1928 at 11 a m in the Frederick County Circuit Court Virginia near Nain. Three tracts include woodland ten acres and four acres with house and barn all described in the will of Benjamin Brown. One third cash and balance in one and two years with bonds and deed of trust. Special Commissioner Harry R Kern and Clerk C C Brannon.
70 acre Clarke and Frederick counties farm with 8 room dwelling bank barn and outbuildings priced at 5000. Orchard preserved on 30 acres. 188 acre farm on a public road six miles from the city priced at 2500. Attractive city lots and dwellings offered for quick buyers.
Limestone farms from 60 to 340 acres with various prices and improvements. 6 to 9 room houses with barns and water power mills, several building lots near Handley School. Store property in town with last year’s $30 000 business. C P Bailey & Co Bailey Bros Store Winchester Va 1-10-Im.
Speaker Brewer announced new member assignments for the House. Longtime members received most chairmanships, with Mr. Richards serving on key moral and social reform, privileges and elections, currency and commerce, and executive expenditures panels. Assemblyman Charles A ard from Clarke and Warren counties joins Insurance and Banking, Retrenchment and Economy, and Militia and Police committees.
In Richmond Virginia on January 17 the Foreign Mission Board of the Baptist Church delivered a major contribution to the Near East Relief fund, one of the largest single gifts since the Virginia drive began last December for 300000 dollars.
Valley bank notices announce sale of a Hunting Ridge farm in Frederick County under a chancery decree in Luther Lewis vs Rachael Lewis et al. The sale is set for February 15 1922 at eleven a m with terms requiring one third cash and the rest via two bonds at 6 percent secured by a deed of trust. Banks observe legal holidays and payments due January 20 1922.
Baltimore officials report substantial savings for passengers after a 1922 tax repeal. Figures show a measurable reduction in transportation costs as the new law takes effect, with impact on the Baltimore and Ohio system and related rail services.
Mrs E Irwin of Altoona Pennsylvania reports relief from goitre using Sorbol Quadruple a colorless liniment. She offers to share her experience and provides addresses of other successful users via Miller's Drug Store or Box 358 Mechanicsburg Ohio. Also notes 1922 tax rates on railroad tickets and freight as charged by the Baltimore and Ohio.
152 acres in Berks County Pennsylvania offered for sale features include a 90 foot embankment barn with attached implement shed and butcher shop in good condition. water from a well and small creek through an 8 acre meadow, 30 acres in seed fertilized, 14 acres manure for 1922 crop, heavy timber value, proximity to a state road and Reading markets. mortgage terms available with prompt reply to 16-eod-6t.
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